Companion Global Healthcare

November 15, 2007 by George Van Antwerp 0 Comments

BCBS of South Carolina has been a progressive Blues plan for years. Under Ed Sellers’ leadership, they have tried new services and built new businesses. It was surprising, but not shocking, to see that they had opened a new company called Companion Global Healthcare which is a medical tourism company to help people get costly surgeries and care outside the US.

I talked about this whole business a few months ago (old entry). But, seeing BCBS-SC and HealthNet of CA [who has been working with a Mexican healthplan for 6 years] focus on this and take advantage of these services is an interesting development and says a lot about the status of our system.